Phonology

Phonology is concerned with all aspects of phonology and related disciplines. Each volume contains three
issues, published in May, August and December. Preference is given to papers which make a substantial
theoretical contribution, irrespective of the particular theoretical framework employed, but the submission
of papers presenting new empirical data of general theoretical interest is also encouraged. From time to
time, one of the issues is devoted to a particular theme. The editors encourage the submission of papers on
proposed themes as well as on other topics relevant to the interests of Phonology. In addition, they
welcome suggestions for future themes, as well as offers to act as guest editor for particular themes. The
language of publication is English.

Submission of papers
Submissions should be sent to the editors in PDF format by e-mail:
Ellen M. Kaisse (kaisse@u.washington.edu )
Colin J. Ewen (c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
An abstract of the paper (no longer than 150 words) should be included. A hard copy of the paper is not
normally required. Manuscripts may be single-spaced; margins should be sufficiently large to allow
annotation of the manuscript by reviewers.
Any material submitted to Phonology must be original work. Submission of an article is taken to imply
that the material therein has not previously been published as a journal article or as part of a larger
publication, is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere and will not be submitted
elsewhere while it is under review for Phonology.
Previous appearance of related work in a conference proceedings does not preclude publication in
Phonology. Work published in such a venue may be considered, provided that the journal submission is
substantially more elaborated than the proceedings paper in terms of content, analysis and/or discussion.
In such cases, it is the responsibility of the author to inform the editors at the time of submission that part
or all of the manuscript is based on previously published work. The submission should be accompanied by
a brief explanation of how the submitted manuscript differs from previous published versions and how
much it overlaps with them. Appearance in non-peer reviewed working papers volumes and online
archives (e.g. the Rutgers Optimality Archive) does not constitute prior publication; nevertheless, it is
helpful if it is drawn to the attention of the editors.
Failing to point out non-trivial overlap with previous publications means that the author is in violation of
the policy of the journal; such actions may be considered an ethical breach.
If an author has any question about how these rules apply to a particular submission, it is always best to
check with the editors beforehand.

Authors of articles published in the journal assign copyright to Cambridge University Press (with certain
rights reserved), and receive a copyright assignment form for signature on acceptance of the paper.
In general, preference will be given to manuscripts which are shorter than around 16,000 words, including
examples, footnotes and references; if a longer manuscript is submitted, it should be made clear to the
editors why this is thought necessary.
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language
manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This is optional, but may help to ensure that
the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and any reviewers. We list a number of
third-party services specialising in language editing and/or translation, and suggest that authors contact as
appropriate:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/stream?pageId=8728&level=2&menu=Authors&pageId=3608
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these
services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the
author to submitting to a Cambridge published journal.
Submitted papers will normally be read by at least two reviewers and by one of the associate editors.
The authors name should not appear on the paper itself, and, as far as possible, should not be identifiable
either from references in the text or from the document properties of the PDF file; where possible, the
identity of the author will not be made known to the reviewers of the paper.
Acknowledgements should not be included in the paper, but provided in a separate file. Details of the
authors or authors name(s), affiliation(s) and full postal and e-mail address(es) should be submitted in a
separate file; these will appear in the list of contributors to each issue.
If it is not possible to submit the manuscript electronically, two copies of the manuscript may be sent to
the appropriate editorial address, together with a copy on disk, either as a PDF or in any common
word-processing format, with details of non-standard fonts used.
Manuscripts from North America should be sent to:
Professor Ellen M. Kaisse
Department of Linguistics
University of Washington
Box 352425
Seattle, WA 98195-2425
U.S.A.
Manuscripts from the rest of the world should be sent to:
Professor Colin J. Ewen
Opleiding Engels
Universiteit Leiden
P.N. van Eyckhof 4
Postbus 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
If the manuscript is not submitted electronically, an abstract of the paper (no longer than 150 words)
should be e-mailed to the editors when the manuscript is submitted.

Contributors of published papers are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in
which they do not own copyright, to be used in both print and electronic media, and for ensuring that the
appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
Please visit http://journals.cambridge.org/openaccess for information on our open access policies,
compliance with major funding bodies, and guidelines on depositing your manuscript in an institutional
repository.

Style
It is not necessary that initial submissions adhere rigidly to the style sheet below. At this point in
the process, clear and consistent presentation are paramount.
Notes and acknowledgements
Notes should be kept to a minimum, and contain as few examples as possible. Acknowledgements in the
published version of a paper will appear in a first note, marked with an asterisk after the title of the paper.
Section headings
All sections and subsections should have a heading. Section headings should be numbered as in the
following:
1
Sign language prosody
1.1 The prosodic component of sign language grammar
1.1.1 Prosody of the intonational phrase in sign language
Levels lower than these should be avoided.
If the first section of a paper is titled Introduction, this section should be numbered 1, not 0.
Examples, tables, figures, etc.
All illustrative material (with the exception of tables and figures) should be treated as examples, and
should be numbered consecutively throughout the text. Tables and figures should have a caption. It is not
necessary to put examples, tables or figures on separate pages, except when they are very large.
Charges apply for all colour figures that appear in the print version of the journal. At the time of
submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in colour in the online
version only, or whether they should appear in colour online and in the print version. There is no charge
for including colour figures in the online version of the Journal but it must be clear that colour is needed to
enhance the meaning of the figure, rather than simply being for aesthetic purposes. If you request colour
figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to
collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of
your article.
Underlining, italicisation, etc.
Underline or italicise examples included in the text; glosses of non-English examples should immediately
follow the example, and be enclosed in single quotation marks. Double underlining or small capitals
should be used to identify technical terms; quotation marks or single underlining should not be used for
this purpose.

Quotations
Include short quotations in the text, enclosed in single quotation marks. Longer quotations should begin a
new line and be indented. Double quotation marks should only be used for quotations within quotations.
Brackets and phonetic symbols
Enclose phonetic transcriptions, which should be no narrower than is necessary for the purpose, in [ ]
brackets. Phonemic or more remote representations should be given in / /. Where orthography is under
discussion, spelling forms should be enclosed in < >. Italicised and boldface phonetic symbols should be
avoided.
Phonetic transcriptions should, wherever possible, make use of the symbols and conventions of the
International Phonetic Alphabet (as revised in 1993). If unusual symbols are used, these should be clearly
indicated.
Spelling
Spelling conventions used in Phonology are those of British English. All -ize and -ise suffixes appear as
-ise.
Bibliographical references in the text
Reference in the text should be to author(s) and date, and, where appropriate, chapter, section or page
number(s), as in the following: Davidson (2006: 110), Pater et al. (2007), Hayes & Wilson (2008: 4.2.1),
Gallagher (2010a, b). Lists such as these should be given in chronological order. References occurring in
parentheses should have the following form: (Gallagher 2010a, b). References to publications by more
than two authors should use the form with et al. Unpublished works should be referred to as (Jones,
forthcoming) or (Jones, in press) where the work has been accepted for publication; otherwise the
reference should be to (Jones, in preparation) or (Jones, ms).

References
An alphabetically ordered list of all (and only) the works referred to in the text and notes should follow the
notes. Authors names should be given in the form used in the cited publication. References should take
the following form:
Boersma, Paul & David Weenink (2010). Praat: doing phonetics by computer (version 5.1.20).
http://www.praat.org/.
Gallagher, Gillian (2010a). The perceptual basis of long-distance laryngeal restrictions. PhD dissertation,
MIT.
Gallagher, Gillian (2010b). Perceptual distinctness and long-distance laryngeal restrictions. Phonology 27.
435480.
Hayes, Bruce (1980). A metrical theory of stress rules. PhD dissertation, MIT. Distributed 1981, Indiana
University Linguistics Club.
Hermans, Ben (2011). The representation of word stress. In van Oostendorp et al. (2011). 9801002.
Hulst, Harry van der (2011). Pitch accent systems. In van Oostendorp et al. (2011). 10031026.
Keyser, Samuel Jay & Kenneth N. Stevens (2001). Enhancement revisited. In Michael J. Kenstowicz (ed.)
Ken Hale: a life in language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 271291.
Kingston, John & Mary E. Beckman (eds.) (1990). Papers in laboratory phonology I: between the
grammar and physics of speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McCarthy, John J. (1988). Feature geometry and dependency: a review. Phonetica 45. 84108.
McCarthy, John J. & Alan S. Prince (1993). Prosodic morphology I: constraint interaction and
satisfaction. Ms, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Rutgers University.

Oostendorp, Marc van, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (eds.) (2011). The Blackwell
companion to phonology. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
Pater, Joe, Rajesh Bhatt & Chris Potts (2007). Linguistic optimization. Ms, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. Available (April 2013) at http://people.umass.edu/pater/pater-bhatt-potts-hg07.pdf.
Prince, Alan (2002). Entailed ranking arguments. Ms, Rutgers University. Available as ROA-500 from the
Rutgers Optimality Archive.
Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky (1993). Optimality Theory: constraint interaction in generative grammar.
Ms, Rutgers University & University of Colorado, Boulder. Published 2004, Malden, Mass. & Oxford:
Blackwell.
Steriade, Donca (1987). Redundant values. CLS 23:2. 339362.
Warner, Natasha (1999). Syllable structure and speech perception are inter-related. Paper presented at the
73rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles.
Page numbers should be given in full for all references to articles in journals or edited volumes. Edited
volumes should appear as separate entries if reference is made to more than one paper in the volume;
otherwise, they should appear in the form given for Keyser & Stevens (2001) above.
Abbreviations in references
The following periodical titles should be cited in abbreviated form:
BLS (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Berkeley Linguistics Society)
CLS (Papers from the Annual Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society)
IJAL (International Journal of American Linguistics)
JASA (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America)
JL (Journal of Linguistics)
JPh (Journal of Phonetics)
Lg (Language)
LI (Linguistic Inquiry)
NELS (Papers from the Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society)
NLLT (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)
WCCFL (Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics).
No full stops should be used in these abbreviations. All other periodical titles should be given in full.
Last updated 9th September 2014